“Conscience is the only voice that protects the life of an innocent man,” he wrote in a journal entry in 1981, when he was ...

Iwao Hakamada spent an un­precedented five decades awaiting execution. Each day he woke up unsure whether it would be his last.

An Australian accused of smuggling amphetamines in a suitcase has appeared in a Japanese court nearly two years after her ...

Citing the case of Iwao Hakamata, an 88-year-old man who spent nearly half a century on death row before being acquitted in a ...

An Asahi Shimbun digital feature focusing on handwritten letters from a death row inmate won the top Grand Prix in the Japan ...

A private-sector panel highlighted various problems with Japan’s capital punishment system, including the possibility of ...

ANKARA – Japan on Thursday ruled out ending the death penalty, spurning local and international pressures, including calls by ...

TOKYO — A Japanese police chief on Monday apologized in person to Iwao Hakamada for his decades-long suffering that started from an overbearing investigation and wrongful conviction that had ...

Despite a proposal by legal experts, the Japanese government has ruled out setting up a commission to review capital ...

Next week , Japan’s national legislature, the Diet, is scheduled to convene its first session after the general elections on ...

A local police chief in Japan has apologized to a man who was acquitted after spending nearly 50 years on death row in a 1966 quadruple murder case. Takayoshi Tsuda, chief of the Shizuoka Prefectural ...

Perth grandmother Donna Nelson has told a Japanese court she didn't know she had drugs in her luggage as her smuggling trial ...